Back To 1995

  Chapter 318 Cutting Leeks

   Since the beginning of this year, Song Yang seems to be not active in the Internet industry, at least not as active as Yahoo, AOL and other peers. He only launched ICQ at the beginning of the year, and double-click company was listed in the middle of the year, and there is no other action after the rest.

   What attracted media attention was Song Yang's actions in other industries, which were quite eye-catching.

   When Song Yang came to the ICQ office building, he saw the entire office building, and now there are people constantly, and now the entire building has basically been leased by ICQ.

Compared with a few months ago, in just over half a year, the scale of ICQ has soared to nearly 800 people. This is the scale of ICQ, Xue Leshan Games, and PayPal payment platforms combined. The speed of this expansion can be said to be quite amazing.

   Of course, other Internet companies are not much different, even Netscape, because the development speed is too fast, too many people are recruited, and they even start to become bloated!

This is unimaginable in the traditional industry, but in the Internet industry, it seems to be a matter of course, because the Internet industry, the treatment given is too high, attracting wave after wave talent influx.

  The talents who enter the Internet industry to make money are no less than those who enter Wall Street investment banks. There are countless people who want to become the next Song Yang, Mark Anderson, and Yang Zhiyuan.

   "Boss!"

   As soon as Song Yang entered the ICQ office building, he ran into Evan Spiegel. After Evan Spiegel saw Song Yang, he immediately stepped forward and said.

  From the time he entered ICQ as an intern, to when he recommended himself to Song Yang, the past six months has also been the most changed half year for Evan Spiegel.

  Song Yang glanced at Evan Spiegel and saw that his complexion was a little darker. Obviously, during this period of time, there was a lot of wind and sun running out.

   "I heard Erin say, Evan, you have done a good job during this time!"

   Hearing Song Yang's words, Evan Spiegel smiled. He is now the assistant manager of ICQ's marketing department, responsible for promoting ICQ to overseas markets, and helping Irene to deal with some things.

Evan Spiegel has done a good job. Although he is not experienced enough, he has an active mind and a thick skin. ICQ management has a good impression of Evan Spiegel. Evan Spiegel runs some of the business, leaving him alone.

In other industries, people of Evan Spiegel's age don't have a three- to five-year internship period. They don't want to gain a foothold in the industry, but in the Internet industry, they have no experience in everything and need to explore. Sometimes vision and brains are more important than experience. Of course, in a few years, when the routines of the Internet are basically figured out, these will not exist.

   "Boss, this is what I should do!"

  Evan Spiegel patted his chest and said to Song Yang that in the past six months, Evan felt that he had changed fast enough. From a small intern, he jumped into the management of ICQ, and may even become an executive.

Take a look at the situation of Double-click and Yahoo and other Internet companies after listing. In the future, when ICQ goes public, Evan Spiegel is also likely to receive an equity reward. According to the ICQ market, as long as there is no such unfortunate thing as Double-click. , it is very likely that ICQ's equity rewards will allow Evan Spiegel to achieve financial freedom!

  Evan Spiegel, who was born in Stanford University, is naturally not bad, his parents are lawyers, but once ICQ goes public, then Evan Spiegel may get the net worth that his parents can get for half a lifetime.

However, compared with Song Yang, Evan Spiegel felt that he was nothing at all. How good Bill Gates was in those days, let countless people enter the software industry, Evan Spiegel did not see it, But Song Yang and Evan Spiegel saw it with his own eyes.

   "Boss, I'm here now and have contacted the business department of the Atlanta Olympics. If nothing else happens, ICQ will appear on the Atlanta Olympics!"

  Evan Spiegel said to Song Yang that the promotion of ICQ with the help of this year's Atlanta Olympics is a long-established plan.

   Relying on this Olympic Games, ICQ will be promoted to the global market, and some advertisements will be made, and some promotion endorsements will be made to make ICQ a global Internet product!

   Song Yang listened to Evan Spiegel's words and nodded, "I hope to see ICQ on TV as soon as possible at the Olympic Games!"

When entering Irene's office, Song Yang glanced back at Evan Spiegel. Based on Evan Spiegel's age and ability, plus his body attributes, he followed Irene, Wesley, and Guy. The relationship between Luo and others is not bad. Even Gleek has a good impression of Evan. In the future, Evan Spiegel is likely to enter the ranks of ICQ and even the executives of the North American Global Investment Fund.

   When Song Yang pushed the door and entered, Irene was processing documents with her head down. It was the same as before. Irene was dressed very well, wearing an old-fashioned suit with black-rimmed glasses.

  Irene, who was processing the documents, felt that someone came in and thought it was an assistant. Just as she was about to speak, the black-rimmed glasses were taken off, causing Irene to exclaim in surprise, and then she was picked up by Song Yang by the waist.

   "This is the office..."

  Irene still wanted to speak, but Song Yang grabbed it, and then the two were printed together. Song Yang looked at Irene in his arms, "No one will come in!"

After the shower, Irene, who was curled up like a little wild cat in Song Yang's Huaiji, got up from Song Yang, picked up the lady's suit that had fallen on the ground, rolled her eyes at Song Yang and said, "I thought you were going to Hollywood to accompany you. Your cream cake."

Seeing Irene's rare expression, Song Yang couldn't help but smile, took Irene in his arms again, took out a jade chain brought back from Yanjing Panjiayuan, put it on Irene's hand, looked at her Said, "Here's something I need to deal with!"

Pushing Song Yang's mischievous hand away, he put on the lady's suit that had fallen on the ground and put it back on again. After returning to the image of a professional woman in the media, he pressed the phone on the table to connect with the female assistant outside, and asked ICQ's few people. An executive came to her office for a meeting.

  Wesley and several ICQ executives, including Ken Williams and his wife, John Carmack, also attended the meeting by phone, and Evan Spiegel also joined in.

"Now ICQ has occupied the instant messaging market in America, Canada, England and other English-speaking regions, and the Japanese, Russian, French and other versions in cooperation with Softbank, Yeadex, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and other companies will also be launched soon. Global market users will soon reach 30 million, and daily active users will exceed 7.5 million!"

   The head of the marketing department, in an excited tone, said to Song Yang, Irene and other ICQ executives that ICQ is undoubtedly creating a myth in the Internet industry.

There must be moisture in this, but ICQ can already boast, and has become the Internet product with the most users in the world. Now the scale of global Internet users is only 50 to 60 million, and ICQ has already occupied the Internet market in name. user.

   There must be some moisture, and it is estimated that it is not too small. Now that the Internet access fee is so expensive, it is impossible for everyone to surf the Internet every day. In addition, the account can be registered repeatedly, and the moisture in it is even greater.

But Silicon Valley likes to hear it, and Wall Street likes it too. ICQ is taking the Internet products to a new level. It turns out that a website can have tens of millions of users. Other companies have a lot of potential to tap, and there is no such thing as a…bubble.

   "I think in the future ICQ may become the world's first Internet company with more than 100 million users!"

   Evan Spiegel, who was sitting in the corner, said something, which caused a burst of laughter from the rest of the office.

This is a bit of a boast, but it's not all bragging. Now there are Wall Street institutions that estimate that according to the current growth rate of Internet users, in three years, the number of users in America will exceed 100 million, and the number of Internet users in the world will exceed 100 million. The scale will exceed 300 million!

   So Evan Spiegel didn't seem to be bragging when he said this, but when Song Yang heard this, he just said it noncommittally and didn't say anything more.

   "How is ICQ's revenue now, and what are other Internet companies doing in instant messaging?" Song Yang asked a group of executives in Irene's office.

   Hearing Song Yang's mention of revenue, the office was quiet for a while, and the eyes of all the executives couldn't help but turn to Irene.

  The current companies such as ICQ, Netscape, Lycos, etc., seem to be very popular, with more than 10 million users at every turn, but whether they can make money or not, and how they live, I am afraid that only each family knows.

   "ICQ's revenue last month was still at a loss. At present, the loss exceeds 9.5 million US dollars. It is mainly used for promotion and server expenses, as well as investment in games and other businesses!"

Aileen said that under the infinite popularity of the Internet, it was a huge loss at the beginning. For example, Yahoo's market value has more than doubled since its listing. However, the first performance of the listing after the release, relying on Internet advertising, the revenue is The price soared to 50 million dollars, but once the accounts were settled, they finally moved the east wall to make up for the west wall, and they still lost 6 million dollars. This is still the result of Wall Street not taking a deep look, and investors turning a blind eye, otherwise Lose more.

Yahoo is all good, other Internet companies are losing money in fancy ways. Among the Internet companies listed today, only Netscape and DoubleClick have maintained the last ranking in the Internet industry in America, and they can still maintain profits, although Not much money.

ICQ has also started to lose money, and it is losing more month by month. The number of users is increasing, but the revenue cannot be raised. Coupled with the huge investment in the portal website and the game industry, ICQ's revenue has been reduced. It's also a waste of money.

   "I think ICQ needs a new round of financing!"

   At the end, Irene finally spoke to Song Yang.

   (end of this chapter)